Kevin Patrick Inscoe

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About Kevin Patrick Inscoe

GNU/Linux, cloud and platform software engineer with 40 years of systems, virtualization, containerization, deployment, web and development experience. Performing cloud orchestration and scaffolding for AWS, Microsoft Azure and Linode using tools such as Python, Terraform, Pulumi, runatlantis.io, Terragrunt, CloudFormation and SaltStack. Container orchestration using Docker Swarm. Compute clusters such as Kubernetes and Apache Mesos. k8s deployment using Helm and custom deployment tools as well as GitHub Actions, release and package management. Observability trace, APM and contextual logs analysis using Datadog as well as alert management with aggregation and integration with PagerDuty and Opsgenie. Web hosting with Nginx and Apache. Content Delivery Networks such as Akamai and Limelight. Distributed systems management using SaltStack and AWS Systems Manager. Software development using Go, Python, PHP, Perl and shell scripts including experience with gRPC. Continuous integration and deployments using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Octopus, TeamCity, JFrog, Bamboo, Bitbucket, AWS S3, AWS CodeDeploy and custom tools. Database relational and non-relational (NoSQL) such as PostgresSQL, Redis, MySQL, Couchbase, MarkLogic. Messaging streaming and management, backup and recovery using persisted volumes in k8s with NATS (clustered) and JetStream. Secrets management using Hashicorp Vault and AWS KMS and Systems Manager. Platform engineering tools such as Retool. Networking and VPN technologies such as Tailscale, OpenVPN, AWS VPC Peering, AWS Transit Gateway and AWS Direct Connect. Hardware experience with Amateur Radio and electronics. Have coded projects in x86, m68k and VAX/VMS using NASM, Microsoft Assembler (MASM) and DEC Macro-33 (VAX MACRO). Legacy experience in C and C++, Pascal, FORTRAN, COBOL, Visual Basic and Powershell.